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Originally Posted by flyrodfisher
Interesting replies that beg a few more questions;
For those who said it is an opportunity to get out/or take the kids out...why do you need a tournament to do that?
For those of you who said it was the competitive aspect/prizes that appealed to you...If you have to compete and keep score....Is fishing still a sport...or is it a game?
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Considering the web can’t even decide the difference between a game and sport what criteria do you use to define them? For an example though, here’s one of many charts trying to differentiate between the two.
Being as fishing involves the aspect of chance or luck, by that table it’s always a game. It could easily go either way though and I consider it a sport. Why the need for a label though?
Tournament fishing for me just adds a few more layers of rules, the competitive atmosphere and the prospect of a financial win. The time around the hotel drinking with the boys and learning stuff is nice too but our club members meetings are the same deal so it’s not as though that’s an exclusive perk to a tournament.
I’ll fish any day that ends in ‘y’ if the swell is calm enough and I don’t need a tournament to have me drag the boat to the water.
Now as for a fly fishing tourney, that one I posted about that I’m going to in April has a fly fishing category so they do exists if your a die hard fly snob.
It would be easier if you told us what you were fishing for here with your line of questioning...